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<ul><li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="#Attributes">Attributes</a><ol><li><a href="#Common_Attributes">Common Attributes</a></li><li><a href="#Standard_Implementation">Standard Implementation</a></li></ol></li></ul>
</div><h3 id="Introduction">Introduction</h3><div class="text">

  <p>The <strong>Executor</strong> represents a thread pool that can be shared
     between components in Tomcat. Historically there has been a thread pool per
     connector created but this allows you to share a thread pool, between (primarily) connector
     but also other components when those get configured to support executors</p>


  <p>The executor has to implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.Executor</code> interface.</p>

  <p>The executor is a nested element to the <a href="service.html">Service</a> element.
     And in order for it to be picked up by the connectors, the Executor element has to appear
     prior to the Connector element in server.xml</p>
</div><h3 id="Attributes">Attributes</h3><div class="text">

  <div class="subsection"><h4 id="Common_Attributes">Common Attributes</h4><div class="text">

  <p>All implementations of <strong>Executor</strong>
  support the following attributes:</p>

  <table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
          Attribute
        </th><th style="width: 85%;">
          Description
        </th></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">className</code></td><td>
      <p>The class of the implementation. The implementation has to implement the
         <code>org.apache.catalina.Executor</code> interface.
         This interface ensures that the object can be referenced through its <code>name</code> attribute
         and that implements Lifecycle, so that it can be started and stopped with the container.
         The default value for the className is <code>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardThreadExecutor</code></p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><strong><code class="attributeName">name</code></strong></td><td>
      <p>The name used to reference this pool in other places in server.xml.
         The name is required and must be unique.</p>
    </td></tr></table>

  </div></div>

  <div class="subsection"><h4 id="Standard_Implementation">Standard Implementation</h4><div class="text">

  <p>
  The default implementation supports the following attributes:</p>

  <table class="defaultTable"><tr><th style="width: 15%;">
          Attribute
        </th><th style="width: 85%;">
          Description
        </th></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">threadPriority</code></td><td>
      <p>(int) The thread priority for threads in the executor, the default is
      <code>5</code> (the value of the <code>Thread.NORM_PRIORITY</code> constant)</p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">daemon</code></td><td>
      <p>(boolean) Whether the threads should be daemon threads or not, the default is <code>true</code></p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">namePrefix</code></td><td>
      <p>(String) The name prefix for each thread created by the executor.
         The thread name for an individual thread will be <code>namePrefix+threadNumber</code></p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">maxThreads</code></td><td>
      <p>(int) The max number of active threads in this pool, default is <code>200</code></p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">minSpareThreads</code></td><td>
      <p>(int) The minimum number of threads always kept alive, default is <code>25</code></p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">maxIdleTime</code></td><td>
      <p>(int) The number of milliseconds before an idle thread shutsdown, unless the number of active threads are less
         or equal to minSpareThreads. Default value is <code>60000</code>(1 minute)</p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">maxQueueSize</code></td><td>
      <p>(int) The maximum number of runnable tasks that can queue up awaiting
        execution before we reject them. Default value is <code>Integer.MAX_VALUE</code></p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">prestartminSpareThreads</code></td><td>
      <p>(boolean) Whether minSpareThreads should be started when starting the Executor or not,
          the default is <code>false</code></p>
    </td></tr><tr><td><code class="attributeName">threadRenewalDelay</code></td><td>
      <p>(long) If a <a href="listeners.html">ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener</a> is configured,
        it will notify this executor about stopped contexts.
        After a context is stopped, threads in the pool are renewed. To avoid renewing all threads at the same time,
        this option sets a delay between renewal of any 2 threads. The value is in ms,
        default value is <code>1000</code> ms. If value is negative, threads are not renewed.</p>
    </td></tr></table>


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